Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"A debut novel about an odd assortment of residents living in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest"--
The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, a number of people now reside quietly, looking for ways to live in a dying city. Apartment C2 is lonely and detached. C6 is aging and stuck....
Author
Language
English
Description
Tina Finn was standing at the edge of her estranged mother's newly dug grave when she first heard about her inheritance. Until this moment she'd been scraping by, living from one paycheck to the next. But all that was about to change. Now Tina is the proud owner of a huge luxury apartment overlooking Central Park. Things couldn't get much better, right? Wrong. Her half-brothers, left out of the inheritance, think that she has no right to the apartment,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Just outside the city - any city, every city - is a grand, spacious but affordable apartment building called The Beresford. There's a routine at The Beresford. For Mrs May, every day's the same: a cup of cold, black coffee in the morning, pruning roses, checking on her tenants, wine, prayer and an afternoon nap. She never leaves the building. Abe Schwartz also lives at The Beresford. His housemate, Sythe, no longer does. Because Abe just killed him....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the author's debut novel about a young woman, haunted by loss, who rediscovers passion and possibility when she is drawn into the tangled lives of her neighbors. Five years after her young husband's death, Celia Cassill has moved from one Brooklyn neighborhood to another, but she has not moved on. The owner of a small apartment building, she has chosen her tenants for their ability to respect one another's privacy. Celia believes in boundaries,...
Author
Series
Chi's sweet home volume 1
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of Chi, a mischievous kitten who is adopted by Yohei and his family, the Yamadas, even though their lease explicitly states pets are not allowed in their building.
10) Three rooms
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"How do you change from place to place? It's autumn 2018 and a young woman moves into a rented room in university accommodation, ready to begin a job as a research assistant at Oxford. Here, living and working in the spaces that have birthed the country's leaders, she is both outsider and insider, and she can't shake the feeling that real life is happening elsewhere. Eight months later she finds herself in London. She's landed a temp contract at a...
11) Obserwator
Author
Series
Language
Polish
Description
Londynem wstrząsa seria brutalnych morderstw.
Bezbronne, samotne kobiety padają ofiarą sadystycznego
i doskonale zorganizowanego mordercy.
A wszystkie tropy prowadzą do dzielnicy, w której mieszka pewien samotnik.
Długo wyczekiwana kolejna powieść niemieckiej królowej kryminału!
Samson obserwuje życie zupełnie sobie obcych kobiet. Identyfikuje się z nimi i chce wiedzieć o nich wszystko. Może dlatego, że jego własne życie
...14) Espresso tales
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 2
Language
English
Description
Back are all our favourite denizens of a converted Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh. Bertie, the immensely talented six-year-old, is now enrolled in kindergarten, and much to his dismay, has been clad in pink overalls for his first day of class. Bruce has lost his job as a surveyor and, between admiring glances in the mirror, is contemplating becoming a wine merchant. Pat is embarking on a new life at Edinburgh University and perhaps on a new relationship,...
Author
Series
Boston dragons volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Moving into an apartment building populated with other supernaturals, Rory, a dragon shifter, gets an unexpected roommate when a down-on-her-luck flight attendant named Amber also rents his same apartment and unleashes her fury on him until it turns into a different kind of heat.
16) The tenant
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a link between the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who's a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. Esther also turns out to be a...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
"After getting passed over for an promotion, Sadie Green is in desperate need of three things: a stiff drink, a new place to live, and a one-night-stand. Drunk, she mixes up a dating app for a roommate-finding app and finds herself on the doorstep of Jack Thomas's gorgeous Brooklyn brownstone. Jack, still grieving the unexpected death of his parents, has learned to find comfort in video games and movies instead of friends. So while he doesn't know...
Author
Series
Journaling mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Divorced single mom Mandy Meadows scrapes by working as a barista and receiving payments from her cousin, Ryan, who rents her basement apartment. At night, she and her teenage daughter Vellum run a successful home business as journaling bloggers on their popular YouTube channel. But Mandy's carefully organized world is about to come crashing down. While filming their latest journaling tutorial, Mandy and Vellum hear a loud noise on the basement stairs,...
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request